[INT 1358]: Discrete Mathematics I
1.5 Nested Quantifiers
Nested quantifiers are quantifiers that occur within the scope of other quantifiers.
Example: ∀x∃yP (x, y)
Quantifier order matters!
∀x∃yP (x, y) 6= ∃y∀xP (x, y)
1.5 pg. 65 # 9
Let L(x, y) be the statement “x loves y,” where the domain for both x and y consists of all people
in the world. Use quantifiers to express each of these statements.
   a) Everybody loves Jerry.
      ∀xL(x, Jerry)
  b) Everybody loves somebody.
      ∀x∃yL(x, y)
   c) There is somebody whom everybody loves.
      ∃y∀xL(x, y)
  d) Nobody loves everybody.
      ∀x∃y¬L(x, y) or ¬∃x∀yL(x, y)
    i Everyone loves himself or herself
      ∀xL(x, x)
1.5 pg. 64 # 5
Let W (x, y) mean that student x has visited website y, where the domain for x consists of all
students in your school and the domain for y consists of all websites. Express each of these
statements by a simple English sentence.
   d ∃y(W (Ashok Puri,y) ∧ W (Cindy Yoon, y))
      There is a website that both Ashok and Cindy have visited.
   e ∃y∀z(y 6= (David Belcher) ∧ (W (David Belcher, z) → W (y, z)))
      There is a person besides David who has visited all the websites that David has visited.
    f ∃x∃y∀z(((x 6= y) ∧ (W (x, z) ↔ W (y, z))))
      There are two distinct people who have visited exactly the same sites.
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[INT 1358]: Discrete Mathematics I
1.5 pg. 66 # 13
Let M (x, y) be “x has sent y an e-mail message” and T (x, y) be “x has telephoned y,” where the
domain consists for all students in your class. Use quantifiers to express each of these statements.
   k There is a student in your class who has not received an e-mail message from anyone else in
     the class and who has not been called by any other student in the class.
      ∃x∀y((x 6= y) → (¬M (y, x) ∧ ¬T (y, x)))
    l Every student in the class has either received an e-mail message or received a telephone call
      from another student in the class.
      ∀x∃y((x 6= y) ∧ (M (y, x) ∨ T (y, x)))
   m There are at least two students in your class such that one student has sent the other e-mail
     and the second student has telephoned the first student
      ∃x∃y((x 6= y) ∧ (M (x, y) ∧ T (y, x)))
1.5 pg. 67 # 33
Rewrite each of these statements so that negations appear only within predicates (that is, so that no
negation is outside a quantifier or an expression involving logical connectives).
   a) ¬∀x∀yP (x, y)
       ¬∀x∀yP (x, y)
       ≡ ∃x¬∀yP (x, y) De Morgan’s laws for quantifiers
       ≡ ∃x∃y¬P (x, y) De Morgan’s laws for quantifiers
   d ¬(∃x∃y¬P (x, y) ∧ ∀x∀y(Q(x, y))
       ¬(∃x∃y¬P (x, y) ∧ ∀x∀y(Q(x, y))
       ≡ (¬∃x∃y¬P (x, y)) ∨ (¬∀x∀yQ(x, y))           De Morgan’s Law
       ≡ (∀x¬∃y¬P (x, y)) ∨ (¬∀x∀yQ(x, y))           De Morgan’s laws for quantifiers
       ≡ (∀x∀y¬¬P (x, y)) ∨ (¬∀x∀yQ(x, y))           De Morgan’s laws for quantifiers
       ≡ (∀x∀yP (x, y)) ∨ (¬∀x∀yQ(x, y))             Double Negation
       ≡ (∀x∀yP (x, y)) ∨ (∃x¬∀yQ(x, y))             De Morgan’s laws for quantifiers
       ≡ (∀x∀yP (x, y)) ∨ (∃x∃y¬Q(x, y))             De Morgan’s laws for quantifiers